The Life of Graham Greene (1904-1939) by Norman Sherry

Author:Norman Sherry
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473512139
Publisher: Random House

Written on the obverse and tucked into the dog’s collar, Greene’s reply was:

Honoured Madame,

In case you starve while your devoted husband is away I send you one toffee. Please suck it in memory of your devoted admirer.

They ignored the name of their cottage at Chipping Campden and called it, between themselves, ‘the Country basket’ or ‘Cat’s Campden’. On her twenty-sixth birthday (1931), Greene gave his wife a first edition of one of his books and wrote her a letter at thirty minutes past midnight, no doubt when she was asleep, from the ‘Cat’s Basket’:

Lovely and adored Pussina Love-Cat, I do so love you and hope that you’ll have a happy birthday. There ought to be piles of ‘Orient pearls and Indian sand’ heaped at your paws, scents from the south, raw gums from the West. But there is only a rather solid book with all my love and devotion.

I love you so much – four times as much, he added with exactitude, as last week, recalling [what follows are four white stars. Presumably this note was also to be carried ‘per Pekoe post’]: The Peke has just been caught red-padded:

One may speak of a First Edition

at an exorbitant price,

an ancient Pot (Phoenician),

Performing Mice,fn7

Or a Morning Star,

a pedigree Colly,

or a Ziegfeld Follyfn8

(Naked or near,

of a vintage year);

What I prefer,

when all is said,

is the deep soft fur

of a Cat in a double bed.

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